Panasonic has introduced Octa Core smartphone P55 NOVO featuring smart remote functionality by which the smartphone turns into a universal home control.

The Octa Core smartphone P55 Novo sports a 5.3 inch ultra-clear HD IPS display with fabric textured back design. The phone will be made available to Indian consumers from the first week of July at Rs 9,290.

The new smartphone with fabric textured back design gives the smart gadget a stylish look and has an integrated IR Blaster which allows the handset to send various commands to the IR based TV, set top box, AC or any other such equipment with IR sensing capability.

The smartphone comes integrated with Peel Smart Remote app which turns the smartphone into a universal home control. One may also tune in, set reminders, discover shows and control their home devices with the app.

P55 Novo is powered by True Octa Core (1.4GHz) processor running with a support of 1GB RAM and 8 GB of internal memory which can be expanded upto 32 GB. The software capabilities feature various gesture based functions like Double Tap to Lock/Unlock, Smart Swipe functionality where in a combination of number of fingers & direction of swipe can help user perform various predefined functions providing ease of access.

Manish Sharma, managing director, Panasonic India said, “With the new smartphone, we are here to to offer a new dimension wherein the model has been specially designed to provide easy accessibility to consumers looking for a single app to control all home devices.”

Sharing his thoughts on P55 NOVO, Pankaj Rana, business head – Mobility, Panasonic India said, “Indian customers are curious to have multiple options in a single device and keeping that need in mind, we came up with the P55 Novo – an all in all innovative smartphone meeting the needs of our smart users.”